Regional geography

Originally published in 1990, this volume addresses issues surrounding global ecological changes and sustainability of present patterns of urbanisation and industrialisation.

Based on the EU-funded CORASON research project, this volume brings together and compares studies into rural and sustainable development processes in 12 European countries.

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light on the problems inherent in a fragmented approach to policy-making.

CROSS REF DEV STUDIES Both Africa and the Middle East have sought alternatives to Western models of development.

This volume is a critical inquiry into the social project and socioeconomic realities of emerging Brazil, a country that faces profound changes.

With the emphasis on small enterprises, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of what is happening across Europe in terms of sustainable development objectives and sustainability in the context of tourism supply.

Many traditional approaches to rural land management are strictly sectoral, with a rigid introspective focus.

Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate to and interact with poverty and inequalities.

The expectations of European planners for the gradual disappearance of national borders, and the corresponding prognoses of social scientists, have turned out to be over-optimistic.

In this innovative volume, the author addresses some important challenges related to the effective and equitable governance of marine protected areas (MPAs).

Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of core concepts, research, and practice in risk, crisis and disaster communication.

This book offers an overview of digital, IoT and intelligent technologies, applications and solutions that are contributing to shape the digital, inclusive, and sustainable transformation of contemporary cities.

Urban problems and their resolution represent one of the major challenges for planners and decision makers in the modern world.

This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan.

This book explores the current challenges with regard to uncertainty and risk in water management, as well as the interlinkages between drought and water management.

This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and implementing a territorial strategy for economic development and competitiveness.

In the panorama of studies related to the ability of lands to support both natural processes and agricultural production activities, this research introduces a still unexplored or under-studied theme which is that of the relationship between urban sprawl in its various forms and land quality.

This revised and updated third edition of Gender and Development provides a concise, accessible introduction to gender and development issues in the developing world and in the transition countries of Eastern and Central Europe.

Since colonial times the position of the social, political and economic elites in Latin America has been intimately connected to their control over natural resources.

First published in 1999, this volume is a study of regional and local co-operation across national borders in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and also of regional co-operation out of the area - across the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and in the Barents region.

Democratization in South Africa has been accompanied by continuing and even deepening economic inequalities.

Using INDEPTH's multi-site network to provide new demographic insights into population variables, this book provides a new perspective on migration, health and livelihood's interaction over time.

First published in 1986, East Indians in a West Indian Town explores the complex geographical, sociological and anthropological dimensions of Trinidad society before and after its political independence, by employing three sets of materials - census data, questionnaires and participant-observation records.

This book urges the case for reinstating regional geography as a contemporary and relevant methodology.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary team from across the EU, this book connects elements of cultural and planning theories to explain differences and peculiarities among EU member states.

In the context of sustainable development, recent land debates tend to construct two porous camps.

'The Ganges: Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Importance' is a geographical, cultural, economic, and environmental interpretation of the Ganga River.

This book provides an appealing and informative overview of the outstanding landforms and landscapes of Scotland.

Introducing Human Geographies is a 'travel guide' into the academic subject of human geography and the things that it studies.

This book presents the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the physical environment of Hungary.

This edited volume provides an innovative contribution to the debate on contemporary European geopolitics by tracing some of the new political geographies and geographical imaginations emergent within - and made possible by - the EU's actions in the international arena.

The relationship between food and development has always been controversial.

This book examines Tokyo's changes, current challenges, and future trends through a new kind of regional geography and serves as an important source of comprehensive information about the past, present, and future perspectives of Tokyo as a global city.

Originally published in 1980, this book gives a concrete description of the development of Scottish companies and Scottish capital through the 20th Century, based on empirical study.

The much heralded growth and transformation of many economies in sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade continues to receive prominent attention in academic scholarship and among policy practitioners.

This book seeks to explore the theoretical and architectural connections between memory, values, cultural identity, and adaptive reuse in Latin America.

This book argues that class relations are constitutive of development processes and central to understanding inequality within and between countries.

This book is an introduction to a new branch of archaeology that scrutinises landscapes to find evidence of past human activity.

This title was first published in 2002: Uniting scholars from across the full range of social sciences, this distinctive volume provides a unique overview of northern European planning.

Recently, the international division of labour in industrial production has grown increasingly more volatile.

International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be governmental, non-governmental or private sector.

What is a border?

This book presents a selection of manuscripts submitted to the 2nd International Conference on Geospatial Information Sciences 2021, a virtual conference held on November 3-5, 2021.

Megacities are a new phenomenon in history.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

First published in 1999, this volume is unique in that it gives a valuable comparison between the current state of land reform and sustainable development across greater Europe.

This book provides an alternative perspective on community resilience, drawing on critical sociological and social policy insights about how people individually and collectively cope with different kinds of adversity.

This book is a collection of research focusing on the anthropological aspects of how food is made in modern society from both global and local perspectives.

This book explores the fundamentals of smart cities along with issues, controversies, problems and applications concerning security and privacy in smart city development.